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www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov This federal government site, a work in progress, uses patient data from more than 4,000 hospitals to assess how often they provide the recommended treatment for certain conditions. For example, you can check the three hospitals you are considering having surgery at to see which is accredited by...
-- E -- EPISIOTOMY Doctors routinely make a small incision, called an episiotomy, to relieve some of the strain on mother and child during a vaginal delivery. The cut is supposed to speed the baby's exit, but cases of fetal distress that would require it are rare. In fact, the operation...
What makes this story all the more remarkable is that the image that changed Fackelmann's future was generated without any kind of surgery. For years, the gold standard for discovering the location of blockages in a patient's coronary arteries has been a procedure called a cardiac catheterization, in...
At issue is the operation known as an episiotomy, a small incision made in the perineum just before delivery to prevent tearing. Even as recently as 20 years ago, when I started medical school, doctors were performing episiotomies routinely. Since then, many studies have cast doubt on the value of...
As the patient was coming out of sedation Friday afternoon, he got an unpleasant surprise. What had started out as routine minor surgery had turned into a serious problem. One small polyp had been removed from his colon, but in the process doctors discovered another, larger one. They knew that...